Word: lasky
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard, into Yale. So young Laski went on to Harvard, where he was liked no better. When the brash Briton spoke up for the cops in Boston's 1920 police strike, the Harvard Lampoon devoted an entire issue to an exposé of "this propagandist in our midst." The flaming red cover showed Laski as a socialist saint (see cut). A cartoon showed the socialist Day of Judgment with Professor Laski surrounded by human freaks, casting better-dressed citizens (Harvard men, no doubt) into outer darkness...
...Later Laski lectured to overflow classes at Yale. He became a full professor of political science at the London School of Economics, where he stayed for 25 years without getting into major trouble (except in 1934, when he lectured in Moscow and pictured a hypothetical British Labor victory, followed by a financial crisis, a Conservative reaction, suspension of the "Constitution," and chaos culminating in the "hope of revolution...
...politico-economist, Laski acquired a brilliant international reputation. He is a great pal of Washington's more vehement New Dealers...
Revolution by Consent. Unlike most British Laborites, before the war Laski had abandoned all hope for achieving socialism by gradual reforms. (Said one critic: "He never does things by halves, he always does things by doubles.") His formula: the overthrow of "acquisitive [capitalist] society" through "revolution by consent...
...Laski argues that the West has lost its Christian religion, needs a new faith. The Russian Revolution, he says, is the early Christian Church. Capitalism is paganism, socialism is the new, true faith...